PIA18149: MESSENGER Views Rachmaninoff Basin (Artist's Concept)
A depiction of NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is shown viewing the Rachmaninoff basin.
 Target Name:  Mercury
 Mission:  MESSENGER 
 Spacecraft:  MESSENGER
 Product Size:  2400 x 1400 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Johns Hopkins University/APL 
 Other  
Information: 		 More artist's impressions from MESSENGER 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA18149.tif (10.08 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA18149.jpg (280.4 kB)  

Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format (possibly reduced in size from original)

Original Caption Released with Image:

A depiction of the MESSENGER spacecraft is shown viewing the Rachmaninoff basin. Both the monochrome and enhanced color views of Mercury were obtained during MESSENGER's third Mercury flyby.

For information regarding the use of images, see the MESSENGER image use policy.

Image Credit:
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

Image Addition Date:
2009-10-17